On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:17:54 -0000, Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> wrote:
On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:06:57 -0000,
"Kevin Golding" <k...@caomhin.org> wrote:
Kevin> So anyone else want to raise their hands?
It depends.
Would I mind a bit of regular maintenance work? No, I wouldn't mind.
Would I mind a major change in how I run my server - for instance,
run a virus checker, or run the bleeding edge version of SA? You
betcha. Not going to do that, sorry.
So, I need more details before I raise my hand much above the keyboard
:-P
Well it's basically up to individuals how much and what they contribute,
as things are still being planned it's hard to define some details on
every task at the moment.
The main thing that's going to be needed is good, reliable, data. We'll
only get good rules with good feeds. That should be fairly low impact for
people in many respects.
Obviously there's always room to help with some code, so a bit of Perl or
shell skills are a good thing. The impact of that on people will vary on
how they work, but I doubt anyone will do anything to interfere with their
running systems - as proven with masschecks it's fairly easy to sandbox
things to one side for such analysis even if people do want to do anything
on an important system.
As Alex has said there's a need for mirrors etc. - that could potentially
be the biggest impact on volunteers (assuming they offer to help with that
aspect) since they will be a more public facing contribution and it would
be great if it didn't spend more time offline than online.
There's a big consideration of what people feel they might be able to
offer really - if anyone knows someone with a spare Learjet sitting around
they want to donate for the odd group meeting in their mansion there's a
chance they'd get taken up on it. Actually that's a bit far-fetched, I
think most of us like the spread of work and lack of need to find time to
sit in the same room together to discuss every detail so if anyone is
considering such an offer it would still need discussing, but the truth is
it's not a "you must do this" type of volunteering it's a "well I can do
that!" type.
Kevin
